FSA (version 0.8.11)

WSlit: All known standard weight equations.

Description

Parameters for all known standard weight equations.

Format

A data frame with observations on the following 13 variables:

Source

Most of these equations can be found in Neumann, R.M., C.S. Guy, and D.W. Willis. 2012. Length, Weight, and Associated Indices. Chapter 14 in Zale, A.V., D.L. Parrish, and T.M. Sutton, editors. Fisheries Techniques. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD. Some species were not in Neumann et al (2012) and are noted as such in the comments variable.

Topic(s)

• Relative weight
• Standard weight
• Condition

IFAR Chapter

8-Condition.

Details

The minimum TL for the English units were derived by rounding the converted minimum TL for the metric units to what seemed like common units (inches, half inches, or quarter inches).

References

Ogle, D.H. 2016. Introductory Fisheries Analyses with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL.

See Also

See wsVal and wrAdd for related functionality.

Examples

data(WSlit)
str(WSlit)
head(WSlit)